The Venetian Seminar is a peripatetic one-day workshop with a long tradition of participation by scholars of history, art history, literature and linguistics who study Venice and Italy. It is convened on a yearly basis by Alex Bamji (Leeds), Filippo de Vivo (Birkbeck), and Mary Laven (Cambridge). The Seminar brings together established scholars, early career researchers, and postgraduate students in a format designed to promote awareness of the latest research in the field, and to maximise discussion. We are very grateful to Stephen Bowd and the Italian Cultural Institute, Edinburgh, for hosting this year’s seminar.
PROGRAMME:
10.30 Coffee
11-12.30 Nil Pektas (John Rylands Research Institute) – Byzantium in Venice: Greek Scholars and Publishing in Early Modern Venice
Gianluca Raccagni (Edinburgh) – Venice and the inception of the Italian crusades in the thirteenth century
Discussion
Chair: Niels Gaul (Edinburgh)
12.30 Lunch break
1.30-3.00 Faith Trend (Birmingham) – Retrofitting and resurgence: The Venetian church of San Nicolò dei Mendicoli and the Counter Reformation
Emily Michelson (St Andrews) – Christian preachers and Jewish critics in early modern Rome
Chair: Isabella Lazzarini (Università del Molise)
3.00 Tea
3.30-5.00 Alex Bamji (Leeds) – Sudden death in early modern Venice
Giacomo Mannironi (Warwick) – Reading disobedience: the eighteenth-century Venetian novel and its public
Chair: Tricia Allerston (National Galleries of Scotland)
Accommodation
For a map showing the location of the Italian Cultural Institute, see:
http://www.iicedimburgo.esteri.it/IIC_Edimburgo/Menu/Istituto/Come_raggiungerci/
For accommodation options, see:
http://www.edinburghfirst.co.uk/for-accommodation/
http://www.visitscotland.com/destinationsmaps/edinburghlothians/accommodation/
Please email a.bamji@leeds.ac.uk to reserve a space, no registration fees